2021-07-11

Gemcall Now Supports Streaming and More

Big changes to my CLI gemini client gemcall in the past few days!

Replaced getopt with argparse. I think Solene initially suggested argparse, but I somehow got it into my head that it wasn't part of the standard library. That mistake is now amended.
The client can now be used as a lib. It provides the function gemcall.request, which returns a gemcall.Response object. This has everything you need to build a more feature-full client or browser around.
It supports streaming! It will output data as it comes in, instead of waiting for everything to download first.
The response code and meta line are now printed to stderr instead of stdout, neatly separated from the response body.
Speaking of which, you can now choose to omit the header output -- or ONLY print the header.

This is a big thing. After some battle testing I intend to read up on how to make this available to pip install.

Please let me know if you have questions or find issues.

-- CC0 Björn Wärmedal